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Careful Scrutiny Needed Recent events will undoubtedly put President Hoover and Attorney-General Mitchell on their jruard when recommendations for the successorship to Judge Anderson are made. Ordinarily and as a matter of precedent, this state would furnish the man who will succeed Judge Anderson on the federal court of appeals. Tradition and precedent seem to require that each of the states in the district be represented. It is quite probable that the precedent would be followed, and will be. if there is no effort to use that place as political patronage, or as the means of creating patronage for friends of those in power. Recent events in this state make it more than ever imperative that there be the closest scutiny of all suggestions for this very important post. The record of the senators in their selection of federal officials has not been so happy as give unlimited confidence in then judgment. The indictment of two prohibition agents in the northern district would ordinarily not be important. It is expected that occasionally* prohibition agents would fall for the temptations of huge profits or retainers that are possible in the bootleg era. But one of the accused agents has been very rinse to the political machine in this state, has been uniformly kept on pay rolls, has been very much in the limelight. Nor does the voluntary statement of the bootlegger who is jointly indicted, that he gave no bribe, but political contributions, add to the situation any factor that can he considered to the advantage of the, senalor.-.. It. will be recalled, also, that the selection of United States marshalls has been unfortunate. There was the scandal in this district when hundreds of cases of whisky disappeared from the federal building. It is true that three hapless Negroes went to prison, penniless before, and that one of them showed signs of wealth on his exit. In the northern district, the marshall first selected resigned after a grand jury had investigated charges of fraudulent use of the mails. There has been, very consistently, the appearance of the use of federal patronage for political purposes. And the results have not been happy. Now comes the federal court, next, in rank to the supreme court, for consideration. Certainly here is one spot that should be sacred. Unless the judgment of the senators coincides with that, of leaders of the bar and a name presented that will inspire confidence and general acclaim, Indiana can well afford to forego the honor. It is better to have no judge from Indiana ion that court than to have one known as a political appointee. There are some things that are too costly. Jim Watson’s Public Spectators sat. up in surprise last week at one of the sugar tariff hearings before, the senate finance committee, when Senator J. E. Watson began lec- ' uring a witness on the committee's duty toward “The Mnerican Public.” For Jim never has beer one to worry overmuch bout his duty toward the public when any group if American industrialists wanted a higher tariff. The witness, representing Cuban sugar growers and -he vast American interests in the island, had been Imtactful enough to cite McKinley. Roosevelt and taihu Root as to the duty this country bears toward Tuba, and had flatly said that the proposed higher (sugar rates would be disastrous to Cuba. But the spectators were reassured a minute later. The heat hadn't gone to Jim's head after all. The •public” to which he was referring was the 100.000 .persons engaged in the American beet sugar industry. / Jit may be explained that, the proposed 2.4 cent ?%*iff against Cuba would benefit those 100.000 persons Sout 57.000.000. and would cost all the rest of us | i0.000.000 or more in increased sugar prices. * Indiana, for instance, raises about 1 per cent of i sugar beets and her 3.000.000 people would pay liPout $2,000,000 more for their sugar in order to give •Indiana beet growers $70,000 more annually. | No. Jim wasn't really thinking of the public, In Justice to Low-man So Lowman is to go. The assistant secretary of the treasury* in charge of federal prohibition enforcement soon will be removed by the President, accordl mg to apparently reliable reports. Lowman is the man who announced when he took f office two years ago the greatest enforcement drive in history to be crowned with quick success. Lowman is the man who gave federal customs agents permission to shoot other than in self-defense. Lowman is the man who defended the tapping of private telepone and telegraph wires of innocent persons. Lowman is the man who defended the recent epidemic of killings by dry* agents of citizens neither litoxica*ed nor transporting liquor. M Lowman is the man who was going to propagandize he public schools of the country. V In brief, Lowman is about everything President LHoover said a prohibition administrator should not be fm But the country will miss the significance of this %sode if it chuckles over Lowman’s fall, and lets Vo at that, fcjhe point is not that an incompetent or a corrupt . J -ml has failed. Lowman is honest. He is sincere. i-Jr Wrfi has every other official who has

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tried to enforce prohibition. It is easy enough to show why he failed. It is more difficult to show how he or any one else could succeed. He demonstrated—as Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant attorney-general, and others have done—that neither good intentions nor ruthless methods are sufficient to enforce prohibition. Lowman and Willebrandt tried to do the job as the Anti-Saloon League and the professional drys' want it done, and say that it can be done. The failure of this team is not a personal failure. It is the failure of methods and the claims of the professional drys. The Hoover method is more humane and intelligent. But we wonder whether it, or any conceivable method, can enforce an unenforceable law. Hoover Economy The country will applaud the determination of President Hoover to keep down expenses of the government. There is to be no relaxation of the “economy” enforced under President Coolidge. Department heads in preparing estimates for 1931 are told that they must not ask for more than they got during the year which ends June 30, 1930. It is doubtful whether “Hoover economy” will be the same brand as "Coolidge economy,” however. Coolidge at times carried his efforts almost to the point of parsimony, and money was saved where it would have been more economical to spend it. Hoover has been a builder, used to doing big things and spending large sums. It is important that expenditures be kept at the lowest possible level consistent with reason, and presumably this is what Hoover intends to do. The federal government is spending annually about $4,000,000,000. Flood control, cruiser construction, the public building program, farm relief, internal waterway improvement and other projects already under way will call for huge sums in the next few years. The cost of government has been increasing for several years and inevitably will continue to increase. The country is rich and is growing. Even so there is a point beyond which the federal government can not go In absorbing the income of its citizens. Secretary Stimson’s Gcat At last a problem of government has arisen in which we can all take a real interest. It has to do with William Hamilton Bones, a goat belonging to Secretary of State Stimson, and former companion and friend of The Old Soak, the secretary's parrot which has been brought here from Manila. William, likewise, was coming to the capital, and reached San Francisco. Department of agriculture officials refused to let him in, fearing that he might be a disease carrier. Now secretary Arthur Hyde is being asked for a special ruling in William's behalf. It is pointed out that William is not an ordinary goat, but a wild Hawaiian goat, and is a case for special action. So far the agriculture department has shown no signs of yielding. It looks like "aloha" for wild Hawaiian William. Premier Baldwin, retiring from public life, bought himself a second hand tennis racquet. If England was like America, Stanley could write a story for a magazine and buy a brand new one. A Parisian Editor says there would be better understandings if the average American, traveling abroad, entered more into the life of European nations. The trouble is, Americans are so used to bathtubs. A chemist has discovered an excellent lubricant in the skin of the banana. But we know experts who discovered banana oil years ago.

-David Dietz on Science .

Atom , Man and Star

PROFESSOR HORATIO HACKETT NEWMAN of the University of Chicago, writing in “The Nature of the World and of Man," stresses the essential unity of the universe and points out that the chief difference between biology and the other sciences is the level at which biology attacks the universe. Astronomy deals with the universe as a whole. Its units are stars and nebulae, planets and comets. Atomic physics deal with the molecule and its component parts, the atom and the electron. Biology tackles the problem at the organic level. It

star. As we have said previously, we can not answer the problem of “What Is Life?” We can only describe the structure and behavior of living organisms. Dr. Newman lists eight characteristics of protoplasm. the technical name given to the material out of which living cells are constructed. They are: 1. Chemical composition. 2. Physical properties. 3. Metabolism. 4. Growth. 5. Reproduction. 6 Rhythmicity. 7, Irritability and conductivity. 8. Adaptability. The amateur gardner can study all of these characteristics in the plants of his garden. But before proceeding to the specific subject of botany we will present some general considerations by way of introduction. Examining these characteristics is as close as we can come to defining life. It will mean more than many attempted definitions of life. Such definitions as "Life is the state of living." merely evade the issue. Herbert Spencer defined life as “the continual adjustment of internal relations to external relations." Such a definition, however, does not go far enough. The same is true of G. H. Lewes’ as "a senes of definite and successful in structure and in composition. vC.

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deals with organisms ar.d its unit is the cell. It is an interesting fact that if we make a scale, placing a gigantic star at one end of it and a tiny atom at the other end of it. an organism such as man fits into the middle of the scale. Man is as much larger than an atom as he is s m a 1 le r than a

FKE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Lowman Denies He Has Been Ousted; But Could There Be Bo Much Smoke Without Some Fire? U. S. Should Avoid Provoking Tariff War. AT the White House it is said that Seymour Lowman has not been asked to resign either directly or indirectly. Ogden L. Mills, who should know, says the report is "absolute nonsense. Lowman himself characterizes it as “a dream,” and adds that he was not at the White House Friday night and that if a conference was held there he knows nothing about it. Still, the rumor makes headway, and it is hard to believe that there could be so much smoke without some “fire.” a a a Largest Store in U. S. SEVENTY -TWO years ago a New England whaling skipper quit the sea and started a store in New York. He was Rowland H. Macy. He passed out of the picture more than fifty years ago, but the store still bears his name, and not only his name, but his spirit. It employs 3,000 clerks, and did a business of 590.000.000 last year. Having purchased Bamberger’s of Newark. N. J., it becomes the largest retail store in America. a e b Men of Nerve Needed MANY other whaling captains might have done the same thing. Instead, they were content to retire in a more or less sour frame ot mind on the ground that something, or somebody, had spoiled their business. Progress requires men who can adapt themselves to changing conditions, who net only realize what is taking place, but have the nerve to face it. If Ford had stayed with the bicycle business, or Captain Robert Dollar with the lumber business, or a thousand and one others with the business in which they started, the United States would not be the nation it is today. tt u a Nothing New on Tariff A HIGHER tariff on leather goods to pave the way for higher wages, to prevent a possible strike, is how the leather manufacturers association of New York puts it. There has been no strike yet, but one is threatened we are told. The workers want more pay, the employers can’t give it unless they are insured a greater profit. The whole thing sounds original, but it isn't. Tariff boosters never have admitted they wanted anything for themselves. It has always been the laborer, the consumer, or the general public they wished to benefit. a tt tt America Has Had Own Way ONE doesn't have to be a free trader to realize that tariff can be overdone. Because we have had our own way since the war, and made lots of money by having it, people should not assume that the conditions which made this posible are permanent. Our success has been largely due to the fact that other governments were in no position to retaliate. They had to take the dose, whether they liked it or not. But the situation is gradually changing. e tt tt British Protest ‘Menace’ SUCH a conservative journal as the London Times declares that “American duties” are a menace to British industry, and suggests that the moment is near for England and Canada to consider the wisdom of retaliatory measures. “The right of a nation to fix its tariffs without regard to any interference is not, of course, disputed," says the Times, “but as national decisions on this subject directly affect the welfare of other countries, and in the case of the United States affect them profoundly, foreign peoples necessarily view* proposed increases in the American tariff with anxiety.” Certainly they do. and the man is a fool who can not see that the anxiety will lead to alarm, and alarm to anger. -a a Tariff War Senseless AS the Times points out. this country, with its wealth, organization and progressive methods could well afford to adopt moderate measures of piotection. Not only chat, but it could ill afford to carry them to immoderate extremes. It would be a senseless thing for the United States to invite, or provoke a tariff war. We need the markets of the world as never before. cur prosperity can not be sustained without increased trade. The fact that other people ow*e us means little, unless they are able to pay. It is absurd to suppose that we can go on indefinitely closing our markets to other people, and expect them to open more markets for us.

Daily Thought

Defraud ye not one the other except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer: and come together 2gain, that Satan tempts you rot from your incontinency. —Corinthians 7:5. tt tt tt THOUGH fraud in all other actions be odiouv yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force. —Machiavelli. Church Is 99 Years Old B’t 7 hn ftf&crinl SHXE. Ind.. July l.

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the Americ-n Medical Association and of Hygefa, the Health Magaiine. FOOD authorities and public health officials everywhere now recognize that ice cream is an excellent food and, when prepared in a sanitary manner, a highly desirable summer delight. It has been established by scientific investigation that ice cream contains vitamins A and B. It has not been definitely established, however, just how much ice cream does contribute to a diet which contains liberal quantities of bread, meat, potatoes and cereals. Neither has it been shown just how far one may go on ice cream alone. This experiment was made by Dr.

IT SEEMS TO ME

RADICALISM in America increasingly takes on all the aspects of a college fraternity or some little club. You can't belong unless you conform to the code, which seemingly includes many things having no relation to political or economic beliefs. For instance. Floyd Dell, the novelist and playwright, has just been thrust out from under the shelter of the left wing because he had his picture taken in a dinner coat. It was only a flashlight at that. This rift in the radical ranks is all set forth in the July number of The New Masses. The beginning was a letter of resignation from Dell. He explained that he didn't want to be contributing editor any more because the magazine seemed to him to represent “a neurotic literary and pictorial estheticism.” Michael Gold, who runs the Communist organ, brushes the criticism aside. He seems to feel that the difference is at base sartorial. His rage knows no slack rein because the dinner-coated Dell dared to sign his epistle “Yours for the Revolution.” Gold believes that it is impossible for anybody in a boiled shirt to be warm about the workers.

Quotations of Notables

ONE of the fallacies that hovers over the literary art is that the writer who thinks clearly will pretty generally write clearly, whereas the one whose thought is

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor The Times—A well-deserv-ing eulogism appeared recently in an eastern magazine, so pertinent and relevant is to merit more than passing comment. It is a tardy, though welcome recognition of the merits of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. of which our own Times is a worthy member and consequently must share in this unqualified praise. The Scripps-Howard papers are bi* far the best and most fearless in the country: for unswerving devotion to the best interests of all the people commend me to the above-named newspapers. I heartily indorse all the encomiums that were heaped on the selfsame newspapers and will further say that when the American people eventually wake up to the folly of their course and open their eyes to the pernicious legislation being foisted upon them it wil! be due in great measure to unflagging persistency of those papers. More power and abundant prosperity to The Times for its valiant defense of the peoples’ rights is my ■arrant. NT", . ■ X

The New Curriculum?

■HEALTH IN HOT WEATHER

L. S. Palmer of the University of Minnesota, who tested the effects of diets consisting wholly of ice cream, diets consisting of one-third ice cream, and a good general diet without vitamins on a series of animals. The experiment showed that the ice cream contributes vauable factors to a diet. Standard vanilla ice cream was capable of promoting the growth at a moderate rate of the white rats so that they reached the normal or neary normal size and weight. When the ice cream constituted at least one-third of the diet, the animals invariably grew well, as compared with those on the diet without ice cream. Ice cream contains, because of the milk that is in it, not only proteins,

Here is his accusation: “A photograph of Floyd Dell recently appeared in the New York Times. He was arrayed in his authorial dress suit, and carried a cute baby doll on his arm, tagged ‘Little Accident.’ which is the name of his recent play.” tt tt a Too Dramatic BUT Mike Gcid ought to know that' drama makes strange bedfellows. Only a season or so ago it became the painful duty of this young Communist to solicit Otto Kahn for funds to support an experimental theater. And after the conference, the financier suggested that they walk down Fifth avenue to some nearby bank or it may even have been a club. At any rate Mike Gold went in fear and trembling. He tried to linger half a step behind Kahn and to pretend that he was not with him. Later Mike confessed, “If any of my friends had seen me I would have been disgraced forever.” And so I feel that the excommunication of Floyd Dell is by many shades too dramatic. From the revolutionary standpoint, Otto Kahn is

muddled will write in a muddled manner.—George Jean Nathan. (The American Mercury.) a a a There seems hardly any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.—Bertrand Russel. B B tt The woman who practices evasions and makeshifts rarely understands why her husband is when he discovers them.—lda M. Tarbell. (Century.) B tt B You can search through the senate without finding a Solomon: we have no athlete today as great as Goliath! No marksman as accurate as David.—Secretary of Interior Wilbur. n n tt Whether we discuss cabbages or kings, cucumbers or common stocks, the inevitable result of an increase of demand without a corresponding increase of supply is a rise in price. And that is exactly what has been taking place in the common stock market during the past few T years. —Arthur S. Dewey. (World's Work.) a b b Individually, indeed, we have not so much cause for vanity. We are clever by proxy. We travel in automobiles that others have designed: we speak over a telephone that an-

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at least as great a sin as a cute doll tagged “Little Accident.” In fact it seems to me that Mike Gold falls into a dangerous heresy when he undertakes to evaluate any man's passion for the proletariat on the basis of the clothes he wears. Dell is held to be renegade because of his “authorial dress suit.” Under this reasoning the reverse must be true and anybody who unbuttons his flannel shirt at the neck becomes upon that, instant a champion of the cause of freedom. a a Prosperity Victim WITH Gold I will agree that evening clothes are a devilish invention, but I'm not certain that they were devised by the rich with the idea of grinding down the poor. All my most revolutionary thoughts have occurred at times when I was constrained to make a choker collar clamp down upon the button. Those are the moments when I long to tear off the cumbersome livery and man a ba.ricade. Elegance is not the only capitalistic sin cited against Floyd Dell by the left wing leader. It se-ms that Dell wrote articles on sex and that by a strange coincidence some of them were printed in the Cosmopolitan. Speaking of these past literary offenses, Mike Gold remarks: “It was considered daring at that time to indulge in free love. Now every Babbitt goes in for ‘affairs’ and of course what Babbitt does is forbidden to the revolutionists.” Through this process of infiltration the bourgeoisie seem to be intent upon turning everything topsy turvy. “Floyd Dell is just another victim of American prosperity,” is the basic solution offered to explain the truancy of the last leader. “If it is really that no two-goat man is ever sincerely radical, then the Republican scheme to spread a magazine directed against the reds is wholly wrong-headed in conception.” (Copyright. 1929. for Th* Times'

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REASON Ev Frederick Landis

Many Young Ladies Who Go j East to School Lose All j Then- R's Before the First Ch ristmas. lIJHILE Gene Tunney doubtless W is annoyed by this law suit which Miss Fogarty has brought against him. he should find some consolation in the recollection that 1 his most intimate friend, Mr. William Shakespeare, had no end of trouble with the ladies. tt tt a This wart hog at the Bronx zoo ! in Ne w York City which keeps the squirrels from stealing the peanuts from the elephant probably got his idea trom seeing wart hogs of religious prejudice keep the Democrats from grabbing the office? from the Republican elephant. a a a A statistical ci'izen of Appletcn, Wis., sat, on his front porch and , counted 4.060 passing autos and only I two horses. But up to date no horse has had to send inio the garage for some machine toL come out and pull it into town. I " “ " Canada has her minister , Washington and feels ten* chj about her independenci. but | would not risk the wratl of u| Sam by her booze smugliing, \f it not for the fact tltit shi" chaperoned internationany by’l| J. Bull. a a a We are not surprised McCormick's daughter w; ried the Swiss riding tear®' acquired a Swiss accent aft*, in Geneva for five years, s:im;X j young ladies who go east tlose all their R's before l 4 Christmas. tt tt tt The Galveston 'Tex.) 1 pageant, may declare until tl come home that Miss Lisl m beiter of Austria is the mosSl , tiful girls in the world, but wGL a dozen girls in our town wfit .. more soothing to the optic ne : tt tt tt m SENATORS Fletcher and m mell of Florida are rigHg urging a higher tariff on spS since the American sponge can possibly maintain its high star® of living and compete with® pauper labor of foreign sponge! a s a This revelation oi the stock f of Bishop Cannon is a warning*, a patriot never should start of save the country until he is ® ■ . sure that nobody has anythin®* him. e a a The county board of Chicago ed to install electric light b which lock into sockets after it V || estimated that $23,000 worth | them are stolen every year. And j ywe send missionaries to China! V a tt a This is the reason of the yearwhen the little Ephriam of every family erects a refreshment stand in the side yard and compels the entire family to patronize him., an a General Chiang has bought General Feng's army, rebellion, good wil and everything for the absurdly lor figure of $1,500,000 China needs .' P. Morgan to merge her armies an| increase their c?~

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BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG July 1 ON July 1. 1863 the most hot contested battle of the Ci’ war in America, the Battle * Gettysburg, began. The conflict took place at GettjJl, burg, Pa., between the Fede | army of the Potomac, numberig about 80.000 men, and the Ccf federate army of northerri Virgir%, of 73.000 men. \ About 8 a. m. Confederate and Federal troops clashed. Both sides suffered heavy losses during that day. The battle continued with minor conflicts until July 3, when General Meade derided to hold the Federal army in the position then occupied until further attack. Misconstruing this lull, the Confederate troops made one of the most magnificent charges known in military history. Advancing steadily in three columns in the face of a destructive artillery fire, the Confederates promptly filled up the great gaps cut into their lines Uh Federal shells. Within 300 yards S the Federal line they met til musketry fire of the Federal in-* fantry, which had been previously withheld. The advance was utterly demoralized. Soon Confederate troops were In rapid retreat, their ranks being enveloped by the Federal army. During the three days’ battle the Federal army lost 3.072 killed, 14,497 wounded and 5.434 captured or missing. The Confederate army, according to official reports, which, have been questioned, lost 2,592 irA killed. 12.709 wounded and 5,150 captured or missing. The battle is regarded as the turning point in the ' • '■'' a U _____